Daily Archives: January 13, 2013

A former Taliban commander speaks to members of 1st and 3rd Battalion, 3rd Marines, May 2010.

Recently the New York Times had an article on how former insurgents in Mehtar Lam who embraced the Afghan government’s reconciliation program are slowly drifting back to the insurgency.  On its 2004-05 deployment, 3/3 helped multiple insurgents in that area, most famously Najmuddin, lay down their arms and integrate back into the Afghan government.

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